Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

Acte de métier

English translation:

Operational processes/ core operational activities

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Dec 21, 2018 12:57
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French term

Acte de métier

French to English Marketing Business/Commerce (general) Survey responses
Question asked of business managers:
- What are the top two ways you will improve productivity or efficiency in your organization in 2019/2020?
Response:
- Digitiser les actes de métier.

- Job descriptions?
- Skills certificates?
- Hovercraft full of eels?

Any ideas welcome!

Discussion

Daryo Dec 21, 2018:
Taylorism revisited ... any job / profession / occupation can be dissected in "des actes (de métier)" i.e. basic gestures/operations that combined get the job done.

So what they are talking about is "digitising" components/elements of the job.


cette recherche témoigne que "la technicisation des actes de métier [est] un processus fréquent permettant de les extraire de la banalité quotidienne" (p. 35). Les auteurs soulignent que l'apprentissage de ces gestes et paroles technicisés porte une valeur symbolique forte, et qu'il a pour effet la mise en visibilité de la professionnalité des actes plutôt qu'une réelle valeur d'utilité professionnelle.

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:92038/ATTACHMENT01

"Acte de métier" when dealing with an "Hovercraft full of eels":

1. find one eel
2. catch it
3. release overboard
4. repeat as necessary.

Lorraine Dubuc Dec 21, 2018:
Est-ce que cela pourrait vouloir dire Partager mon savoir-faire? Si la question est relative à la productivité d'un candidat... S'agit-il d'un poste en ressources humaines? Un poste de recruteur? Difficile de savoir sans contexte élargi.
Lorraine Dubuc Dec 21, 2018:
NOC? http://noc.esdc.gc.ca/English/home.aspx Is it related to National Occupational Classification? That would be my only idea about it. But 'acte de métier' seems to be typical French France. I am not even sure that it does exist as such... It is nowhere to be found except for this: https://journals.openedition.org/questionsvives/1623

Proposed translations

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Operational processes/ core operational activities

Operational processes/ core operational activities

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/actes-métiers.265228...

Note from asker:
Thanks to all: I went for "core job activities", so thanks also to Lorraine.
Peer comment(s):

agree Daryo : that's the idea, although literally it would mean "each of the operations involved"
35 mins
Thanks Daryo.
agree Verginia Ophof
43 mins
Thanks Verginia.
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